Pootie Tang
Too cool for words.
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people.Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime.
- Director
- Louis C.K.
- Worldwide
- $3M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Pootie Tang returned 0.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Jun 29, 2001
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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